Disable all controls on any form through code

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Hi,

I'm trying to disable all the controls on any form that is opened.

We have a class that is called, and it goes and checks the setup of which menu item to use for the formRun and also checks user group. Then if a user is not in the user group, they should be able to open the form, but they should not be able to click on any of the buttons, or edit anything on the form.

I have tried the following but it doesn't seem to work:

        for (i = 1; i <= formRun.form().design().controlCount(); i++)
        {
            control = formRun.form().design().controlNum(i);
            control.enabled(false);
            this.disableControls(control);
        }

The disableControls method does the same thing but is called recursively. When I debug the code, the value for Enabled is changed to "No", yet when I look at the form all controls are still enabled.

Is there another way perhaps to perform this?

Thanks,

Dyls

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Sohaib Cheema 49,438 User Group Leader on at

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Kindly use follwoing method

void lockControls(Object o,str name)
{
    FormBuildControl formBuildControl;
    int i;
    ;

    for (i=1;i<=o.controlCount(); i++)
    {
        formBuildControl = o.controlNum(i);
        element.control(formBuildControl.id()).enabled(false);
    }
}

//calll this above method from run method of form as under:

void run()
{
    super();
    this.lockControls(form.design(),"The form");
}

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Hi Sohaib,

Thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately I won't be able to go this route. The reason is that I would have to change all the forms in AX, including any new custom developed forms. We have setup tables where the users can set up any menu items to open in a process (through a class). It's completely configurable, so we won't know what they would want to have open.

We are able to make the DataSources on the forms read-only by doing the following:

for (i = 1; i <= formrun.form().dataSourceCount(); i++)

{

if (formrun.form().dataSource(i).allowEdit())

{

formrun.form().dataSource(i).allowEdit(!this.isReadOnly());

}

}

The users aren't able to edit any information on the form, but when they click on any button that opens another form, or has any code behind it that performs any processing, etc... I need to prevent that.

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Anton Venter 20,346 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Dylan, you say that the controls get disabled in code but when the form is displayed the controls are enabled. Where do you have your code to disable the datasources and controls? SysSetupFormRun class?

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Hi Anton,

It's one of our custom classes that we developed.

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Anton Venter 20,346 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Dylan, the SysSetupFormRun class is called for every form in the AOT that is opened from the AX client. You could put your code to control access to the form controls in the init or run method of the SysSetupFormRun class.

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how to create the void lockcontrols method in a class?

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Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

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Right click > New method, or override existing ones.

You can read all about it here:

msdn.microsoft.com/.../aa673265.aspx

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premjitsaha on at

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I already know that.

I need to know how to convert this method of form to a class as it has element.control which cannot be used in classes

void lockControls(Object o,str name)

{

FormBuildControl formBuildControl;

int i;

;

for (i=1;i<=o.controlCount(); i++)

{

formBuildControl = o.controlNum(i);

element.control(formBuildControl.id()).enabled(false);

}

}

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David Massey on at

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This sounds like you are trying to re-implement what security duties/roles/privileges are defined to do for you.

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Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

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You have to pass in FormRun object, which is the "element". And in the method you replace element with _formRun, as the method's caller parameter.

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